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                <p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">In the </span><span class="f_BodyText">Corporate, Business and Software Engineering, Systems Engineering and Ultimate editions</span><span class="f_BodyText"> of Enterprise Architect, you can link an RTF document to any UML element in the model.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">All three editions of Enterprise Architect provide an additional UML Artifact - <a href="document_artifact.htm">Document Artifact</a> - that can contain an RTF document internally.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">You create linked documents from Linked Document Templates, which you define with the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Document Template Editor</span><span class="f_BodyText">; see the </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="linked_document_templates.htm">Create Linked Document Templates</a></span><span class="f_BodyText"> and </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="editing_linked_document_templa.htm">Edit Linked Document Templates</a></span><span class="f_BodyText"> topics.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">The Document Artifact and the </span><span class="f_BodyText">Document Editor are illustrated below:</span></p>
<p class="p_TextIndentedL2"><img src="linkeddocumentartifact.png" width="253" height="193" border="0" alt="LinkedDocumentArtifact"><span class="f_TextIndentedL2"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><img src="linkeddocumenteditor.png" width="398" height="200" border="0" alt="LinkedDocumentEditor"></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">When you have saved the document, an </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic; color: #ff0000;">A</span><span class="f_BodyText"> symbol displays in the bottom right corner of the element.</span></p>
<p class="p_TextIndentedL2"><img src="artifacta.png" width="110" height="70" border="0" alt="ArtifactA"></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Documents created via the </span><span class="f_BodyText">Document Artifact element are</span><span class="f_BodyText"> rendered into RTF Documentation by selecting the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Model Document</span><span class="f_BodyText"> checkbox in the </span><span class="f_UIControl">RTF Style Template Editor</span><span class="f_BodyText">. See the </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="selectingmodelelementsford.htm">Select Model Components For Documentation</a></span><span class="f_BodyText"> topic.</span><br>
<span class="f_BodyText">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="p_TextIndentedL2"><img src="linkeddocumentsrtftemplateeditor.png" width="502" height="250" border="0" alt="LinkedDocumentsRTFTemplateEditor"></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">The </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Model Document</span><span class="f_BodyText"> checkbox is within the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Element</span><span class="f_BodyText"> hierarchy, towards the end. Remember that checkboxes can be moved up and down the hierarchy (as has been done above) to position information in the generated document as you require.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">The linked document is rendered into the RTF documentation at:</span></p>
<p class="p_TextIndentedL2"><span class="f_TextIndentedL2" style="background-color: #ffff99;">model document &gt;</span><br>
<span class="f_TextIndentedL2" style="background-color: #ffff99;">&nbsp;</span><br>
<span class="f_TextIndentedL2" style="background-color: #ffff99;">&lt;model document</span></p>
<p class="p_TextIndentedL2"><img src="linkeddocumentresult.png" width="497" height="171" border="0" alt="LinkedDocumentResult"></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">The text of the document displays where 'Linked Document Editor' appears, above.</span></p>
<p class="p_SeeAlso"><span class="f_SeeAlso">See Also</span></p>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="using_document_artifacts.htm">Create Document Artifact</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="linking_document_to_other_uml_.htm">Link Document to UML Element</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="document_editor.htm">Edit Linked Documents</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="hyperlink_from_linked_document.htm">Hyperlink From Linked Document</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="create_elements_from_linked_do.htm">Create Element From Document</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="deletereplacelinked.htm">Replace or Delete Linked Documents</a></span></li>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="rtfdialogoptions.htm">RTF Report Dialog Options</a></span></li>
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